CFP: 18th-c. Women's Practical Education (4/15/06; NEASECS, 11/9/06)

Abstracts welcome for a panel on "Practicable knowledge and domesticdiscourses" at the 2006 meeting of NEASECS in Salem. More information aboutthe meeting is available at <http://www.neasecs2006.org/index.html>.

This panel seeks to highlight ways in which women's education (both as a formalcategory and as a practicable discipline) helped them write domestic discoursesin innovative ways. Papers that approach ways in which manuscript texts, likerecipe books and account books, provide female writers with interactive,ductile writing forums are particularly welcome, as are papers that utilizeinterdisciplinary approaches to look at how women acquired, utilized, anddisseminated practicable knowledge. Papers might also look at how women'spracticable educations become naturalized in images of housework, accountkeeping, sewing, cooking, arithmetic, or calligraphy in novels, plays, andother literary genres by women.